- 'secure identity' regional branding;
- exchanging knowledge, ability, networks and contacts in security;
- initiating shared innovation projects in security.

The Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce, the municipality of Haarlem, Royal Joh. Enschedé, InHolland, Public Prosecutor, the Haarlem Circle of Industry and the Haarlem Innovation platform founded the HSX to focus on the core qualities of business in Haarlem that have been overlooked untill now: security, reliability and value retention. Business in Haarlem produces and supplies products and services in which these qualities are very important, such as passports, banknotes, iris scanning, courtis, data security, public transport chips, medicine and legal advice.

For (inter)national security supply chains for goods, services and data to function, it appears that there is primarily a need for identification (is it what I think it is?) and detecting forgeries. To identify goods and services, a verification mark is often added in the initial stage of the supply chain, such as a watermark in banknotes. At least 500 technical verification marks are available. Therefore innovation and opportunity lie not in adding more of such marks but in checking them: verification.

For more information on Holland Secure eXchange go to hollandsecureexchange.com